Stories of the Four Courts

The Four Courts from Usher’s Quay, c.1830.

The building on the right on the Quay is the Wellesley Market, which had opened four years previously. It consisted of 80 warerooms, and in the centre an open space to be fitted up as a public market for the sale of Irish produce, especially woollens, silks, cords and cottons, with hotel (Home’s Hotel, after George Home, who had erected the Market) adjoining.

The Market was not a commercial success and lasted only until 1840. The building was pulled down in the late 1970s.

Image from Starrat’s ‘History of Ancient and Modern Dublin‘, 1830.